And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

John Kerry has been a major figure in American history for decades, first as a young Navy

lieutenant who served in Vietnam and poignantly asked the nation, how do you ask a man to

be the last man to die for a mistake?

Then as a United States senator, leading on issues like climate changes early as the 1980s,

as a nominee of his party, who very nearly became president of the United States in 2004,

and most recently a Secretary of State, and the man who took the lead on negotiating

the Iran nuclear agreement, who is at the center of the Paris climate change agreement,

and who has been working trying to find a solution to this vexing and horrific war in Syria.

Secretary Kerry came by the Institute of Politics the other day to speak to our students,

and to sit down with us for a discussion of his career, and where we are in the world today.

Secretary Kerry, welcome.

We are 80 some days from the, as we sit here today at the University of Chicago, we are 80

some days from the end of this administration.

It seems like a good time to kind of look back a little bit at your life and your career.

And I wanted to ask you, I'm so intrigued by the fact that your dad was in the foreign

service.

And I was, what influence did that have on you, and what influence did it have on you

that you spent time overseas as a kid?

How did it shape who you are?

Well, I think, David, that the greater shaping came from the fact that I lived overseas

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